CVE-2011-0611

Adobe Flash Player: Remote Code Execution

As of , CVE-2011-0611 in Adobe Flash Player is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 3 March 2022
US federal deadline
24 March 202221 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Not known to CISA
EPSS score
0.99Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
0.84 on 3 March 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
Public exploit
1 Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries (2 verified)
Fix
No vendor link in CISA's entry

What CISA says to do

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

Adobe Flash Player contains a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content.

CISA's description

Adobe Flash Player before 10.2.154.27 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris and 10.2.156.12 and earlier on Android; Adobe AIR before 2.6.19140; and Authplay.dll (aka AuthPlayLib.bundle) in Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x through 10.0.1 on Windows, Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Mac OS X, and Adobe Acrobat 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Windows and Mac OS X allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content; as demonstrated by a Microsoft Office document with an embedded .swf file that has a size inconsistency in a "group of included constants," object type confusion, ActionScript that adds custom functions to prototypes, and Date objects; and as exploited in the wild in April 2011.

The CVE record's description, from adobe

CVE published
13 April 2011
Assigned by
adobe
CVSS
8.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
CWE-843
Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
no
CISA SSVC, technical impact
total

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 17175).
  3. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 17473).
  4. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  5. The US federal deadline to fix it.

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

Flash Player: other exploited entries

VulnerabilityProductOur groupListedDeadlineEPSS
CVE-2014-0497Integer Underflow VulnerablityAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry0.99
CVE-2010-1297Memory CorruptionAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.83; verified Exploit-DB entry0.83
CVE-2011-0609UnspecifiedAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.64; verified Exploit-DB entry0.64
CVE-2012-0754Memory CorruptionAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.91; verified Exploit-DB entry0.91
CVE-2015-0311Remote Code ExecutionAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.86; verified Exploit-DB entry0.86
CVE-2015-0313Use-After-FreeAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.95; verified Exploit-DB entry0.95
CVE-2015-3113Heap-Based Buffer OverflowAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry0.99
CVE-2015-5122Use-After-FreeAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.94; verified Exploit-DB entry0.94
CVE-2012-1535Arbitrary Code ExecutionAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.70; verified Exploit-DB entry0.70
CVE-2015-3043Memory CorruptionAdobe Flash PlayerPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.74; verified Exploit-DB entry0.74

All 33 entries for Flash Player

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